Apple Laptops

oh no! i remember the thread where in the end you decided to get one. what happened? do you not like it? does it suck?

I just a peek around Apple's UK site and I suspect you might be better off going direct (I'm in Canada)...

...ummm, can anyone get me a really cheap (i.e. free) copy of OSX Jaguar? My new version of Final Cut won't work without it (and I'm supposed to be a freelance editor). And am I allowed to say that here?

Please don't kill me, Mr Apple.

Nick and I are seriously considering getting an Apple Powerbook 12". It's a G4 as - opposed to the G3 Ibook - and is supposed to be better for recording and mixing music.

What say you??

airport is much more expensive than wires in the wall, or trailing across the living room floor, but it works great. However, you will have to plug your computer into the power, and much more often with airport on.

This sentence doesn't read very well. So you mean because it is power hungry?

In other news, it looks like Panther is going to be released in about two weeks.

Yellow, I tells ya. (How does that read? ha ha)

There's always Virtual PC.

OH, my dearest PowerBook G4 12", Please don't turn your back on me! Not now!

http://a772.g.akamai.net/7/772/51/abac57c5eda094/www.apple.com/powerbook/images/nav12over09162003.gif

and installing a soulseek client on os x (it's called nicotine, haha) is pretty easy when you have access to a great guide like this: The Moron's guide to SoulSeek on a Mac.

seems like I've seen more references to purchasing new apple laptops in the past month than ever before. is it just b/c I'm paying more attention since I'm now a switcher?

But anyway, as Ned might say, RAH!

I love the glowing apple behind the screen.

Nick is home playing with the laptop. I'm at work. Blah.

Software wise, especially OS revisions, I generally let other people install them first and see what happens to them. There are lots of boards out there where people will report back within hours of an update appearing to report successes and failures.

Really, how tempting...this would include my trusty G4 Cube?

My friend K used to make pies at the drop of a hat. Like, "K, what are you doing?" "Nothing." "Would you like to make me a pie?" "Sure!"

BAM! Then you had a pie, made from SCRATCH.

Anyway, "I made you a pie." is even >>>>> than "I made you some soup."

Cozen, Grand Opening

My mom got a black MacBook a year after she bought that silvery looking Apple Laptop (which heats up so much you could warm up the entire eskimo population). She doesn't like the keyboard so much, says it's a bit of hassle. She likes to complain. :-)

I regret having bought an iMAC, should have gone with a laptop. :-(

Cozen, Grand Opening

see, all i can see there is something about a free T-shirt (w00t) and a grand draw. stet is convinced that he's going to come away with a lucky bag packed with macbooks and some of steve jobs's spare gold ingots, but i'm not.

that said, i'm just jealous 'cos i won't be able to make the opening day. bugger. can someone pick me up some ingots? ta.

I like ingots

Mister M has ordered me a new iBook because this one is full (which I suppose is a bit like buying a new car because the ashtrays in the current one are full). We're giving my current iBook to his sister. Thing is, the trackpad is a bit fucked on it - it has a tendency to get stuck scrolling or not scrolling, and sometimes the cursor won't move, and I've just noticed the up arrow key is having a problem too. Is there any point in trying to get this fixed before we give her the thing, or should I just say "hey, here's a laptop. It's a bit shit, but it's better than nothing"?

My 12" iBook finally died this month.

I took it apart into seven pieces (RAM, screen, upper casing, bottom casing, touch pad, battery, logic board) and ended up Ebay auctioning those working pieces off for more than the whole thing was worth in working order. Crazy.

Yeah, pricing for used Apple parts is wacky. A friend of mine was looking for an Airport card for a G4 tower and online they were going for $200. This is one of the only instances in which I can think of computer parts appreciating in value.

I broke down and bought a MBP 2.4GHz yesterday, refurbished, to replace the one I was using from the job I just got laid off from. The one I'd had there worked flawlessly; this one just had the trackpad freeze up on me. Has this happened to anyone else? This is one of the new unibody aluminum laptops with the 'glass' trackpad. I had to do a full reboot to get out of it. There were definitely some apple software updates that needed to be installed and I've done that but now I'm afraid to put the thing to sleep.

If it's messed up now you're better off figuring it out now, within the first two weeks, so you can send it back and get it fixed for free (if it's a physical hardware problem)...

Take it straight back to the store and they should give you a new one straight away.

iirc one of those software updates may have fixed the issue for you

if it happens again, hie thee to the genius bar

That has happened exactly once to me - IIRC mine was also coming out of sleep. After a reboot all was fine. Haven't had it since, nor have I tried to bother duplicating it - I trust that Apple will take care of me should this reoccur.

Also, interesting fact: I heard that the reject rate on manufacturing the glass trackpads at the factory is something like 50%, so it's conceivable a few duds made it out the door...

does anyone else have this macbook problem where clicking once on the trackpad button makes a double-click? so when you hit your back button it goes back two pages, and then you hit forward and it goes forward two pages? or you can't really check a checkbox because it checks and unchecks in one click? argh. it's ok as long as i stay away from the left side of the button but i would like it to be normal again

finally bumped my 15.4" macbook pro up to 4GB of RAM yesteray, it is like a whole new machine. It's a bit disappointing to realize that 2GB on this was barely enough, I kept having slowness changing b/w apps (admittedly, memory hogging apps like photoshop/dreamweaver and firefox, which still has some kind of horrible memory leak if you leave it running all day); running vmware fusion was almost pointless; now it's so smooth it makes me drool. hopefully snow leopard will turn out to be the slimmer, faster OS its rumored to be.

so my superdrive has bit the dust as far as DVD media is concerned, maybe after snow leopard, I can't really tell. Hitting the apple support pages I found something like 25 pages of similar complaints all logged in the past few days. WTF? I have a Matsushita drive, which seems appropriately named. Although I should note that the drive in my mac mini which is a pioneer also seems to be fucked for dvds after snow leopard. Tell me I'm not the only one. At least I have applecare for the laptop.

The Matsushita drive in my MBP did they same thing and eventually wouldn't read cds either. This began long before Snow Leopard. They replaced it last May with a HL-DT something-or-other, which I believe is made by LG. I think the Matsushita drives just crap out, regardless of OS.

Can't comment on the mini.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/09/28/apple_investigating_alleged_issues_with_superdrives.html
they seem to all be crapping out this week though which is a little weird.

if I have applecare on this mofo, will they just replace my laptop for me when I go into the genius bar, or are they going to make me send it in and be computerless for a week?

I went to the genius bar, they said up to 72 hours and had it back to me in 2.

My (three year-old) macbook has been refusing to pick up wi-fi the last couple of days, it says `invalid password´ for PWs I know to be correct. What could be wrong? Nothing else appears to be up with it, aside from a little inevitable slowness due to age and fullness.

trash the airport pref file

Thanks... Ive gone open network preferences>advanced then deleted all preferred networks, and the problem is persisting. Is this what you meant?

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA22718

once you're in that folder I would delete anything with an 'airport' in it - restart, your mac will create new default pref files

I think thats pretty much what Ive done, hasnt worked. Reckon I might need to show an IT pro my computer personally. Thanks so much for the help though.

there's a difference between clearing everything via system prefs and doing it via the finder... I would trash anything related to networks in that folder and restart.

this is prob a stupid sugg but i remember having to put a dollar sign before some wifi passwords

what dayo said - you need to trash the files, empty the trash and restart

rather impressed apple rebuilt a friend's macbook for free, esp after the abuse she'd put it through

not entirely on topic, but...

can anyone recommend a good USB "presentation remote" that can be used easily with Mac--hopefully with both MS PowerPoint and Open Office?

? ?

would bet some monies that someone has made a wiimote interface to do that.

You could try these -

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hipporemote-lite/id357348996?mt=8

http://www.senstic.com/iphone/iclickr/iclickr.aspx

why USB and not bluetooth?

i don't know if i have bluetooth on this thing or if i need to buy something to enable it. /dummy

i have a macbook pro--it's about 2 years old.

would also bet monies you also have bluetooth. in the menubar there is usually a hieroglyphic-style "B" icon for bluetooth that you can click and select to activate. P.S. wii controllers work on bluetooth.

newest macbook pro EFI update fixes my flickering screen...nearly 4 years after I bought the damn thing.

10.9.1 is out...and items in the finder still take a year to show up...should never have upgraded from 10.8

hey y'all

i'm looking to get a new integrated amp for my turntable and CD player, but the main thing is that i want an amp that can accommodate bluetooth streaming from my macbook. sick of either having to plug in my laptop (or iPod) to the receiver directly, or just listening through my laptop's teensy speakers.

do you folks know if you can reliably stream stuff from VLC (which can play more audio formats than iTunes, like e.g. FLAC) via bluetooth? i really have never done this stuff before so i'm a little in the dark. and how /far away/ can you stream audio to another bluetooth device? if my computer is upstairs (2nd floor) and the amp is downstairs, will they 'find" one another?

not sure if there's a digital-audio/streaming thread that i should post this to.

I don't know anything about it either but this might help (or might not,) School me on SONOS and other home streaming systems

I know this is First World Problem but I absolutely HAVE to buy a new MacBook Pro today knowing full-well that the new MBPs are coming out in 3 months.

I'm essentially buying 3-4 year old technology when the next gen is just around the corner.

I'm thinking I should just get a refurb with low memory capacity to keep it as "cheap" ($1,099) as possible and then flip it in November.

Any thoughts?

Worst possible timing. Can't you beg or borrow another laptop to make do until then?

I'm afraid not, my current build is not robust enough to handle the processes I'm sending it and the next 12 weeks of projects are pretty critical for me.

You could aways go to Tekserve. Oh wait, no you can't, not anymore.

my macbook crashed and I was just going to go to the apple store tommorrow to fix it and/or get a new one, y'all saying I should hold off until the next series comes out?

Definitely.

http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac

I got a 16” pro and the sound is pretty amazing. First time I’ve ever heard honest bass on laptop speakers

agree